Advice for Living in a Plague: Part 3 | Exodus 9
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INTRODUCTION: MVIS??
1 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.
The God the Hebrews - that’s new.
2 For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them, 3 behold, the hand of the Lord will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
hand of God - the gnats were the finger of God. This the whole hand.
very severe plague - What was everything else? Like working out and they say the next one will be tough. I’m like what was everything else!?
livestock - not all animals. but the most important animals. Economic devastation.
ILLUSTRATION - Brooksville vs Spring Hill
Imagine God saying - tomorrow 08 housing crises would happen.
4 But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that belongs to the people of Israel shall die.” ’ ”
This one occurrence would have given the Israelite a severe upper hand.
Love God more than your wealth.
Love God more than your wealth.
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5 And the Lord set a time, saying, “Tomorrow the Lord will do this thing in the land.” 6 And the next day the Lord did this thing. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the people of Israel died. 7 And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the livestock of Israel was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
Lord set a time - he isn’t asking Pharaoh anymore.
Pharaoh sent - he had to see it to believe.
God always does what he says he will do.
8 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw them in the air in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 It shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt.”
handfuls - two of them.
soot - probobly from the ovens that they make bricks from.
boils -???
man and beast - livestock were dead, but not pets (cats?)
10 So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it in the air, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.
Love God more than your health.
Love God more than your health.
11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.
magincians - not only could they not replicate, they could not stand before them.
haha - MOSES, anything you can do I can do better.
12 But the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
13 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let my people go, that they may serve me. 14 For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
all my plagues on you yourself - This is getting personal. Pharaoh would feel this next one (did he get previous ones?)
So that you may know - No other gods can compare to me.
15 For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. 16 But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
by now - I could have killed you by now.
I have raised you up - The Lord put Pharoah there. He still puts leaders in place.
The reason why - to show the world his power and to proclaim his name.
17 You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.
When you exalt yourself, you lower God - John 3:30 “30 He must increase, but I must decrease.””
18 Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
very heavy hail - Libya 8 inch hail last year. Imagine one foot or big hail.
Oklahoma ice storms???
19 Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them.” ’ ” 20 Then whoever feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses, 21 but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the Lord left his slaves and his livestock in the field.
He gives them 24 hour warning! -better than weatherman today. haha
Ok -tornado storm warning.
whoever feared the Lord - Ex 7:5 “5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”” One of the reasons why God had pharoah have a hard heart was that Eygptians might believe.
Those that believed are covered under same protection. Romans 11, we are grafted into God’s covenants.
Obey God rather than man.
Obey God rather than man.
haha lets look at facebook posts.
22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt.” 23 Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
fire flashing - lighting, although some have suggested these is a reference to a metora shower.
since it became a nation - 1700 year old nation. Imagine all the bad things that happen here in the past 200 years. This is the worse in almost 2,000 years!
HAHA Garden of the gods.
25 The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field. 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.
man and beast - everything outside was going to die.
Were the beasts already dead???
Every plant and tree - they already lost the animals, now their crops.
Goshen - only place not impacted.
27 Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. 28 Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”
I have sinned - huge! He is admitting it. He is repenting of his sins.
Time for an alter call!
29 Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s. 30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God.”
Probably waited so Pharoah wouldn’t kill him.
Moses knew that they weren’t sincere. - Some of you say the right things. But its not genuine.
Commit to God genuinely.
Commit to God genuinely.
31 (The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. 32 But the wheat and the emmer were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.)
This would have been ongoing for up to 9 months! Long time, it was not just a bad weekend. Never ends .... (like covid haha).
33 So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the Lord, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth. 34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants. 35 So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.
CONCLUSION: What about when calamity still strikes the people of God? Job story. . It is well????